September 25, 2008
ALL 74 horses at a New South Wales quarantine station are being retested for equine influenza (EI) after one horse returned a positive result, federal Agriculture Minister Tony Burke says.
While the horse in question at the Eastern Creek Quarantine Facility, in western Sydney, had returned a negative result after the same sample was retested, all the horses at the centre would be retested, Mr Burke said today.
The results of all of the horses will be known in the next few days and all would remain in quarantine until there is an all-clear.
"Right at this point, I'm not at the stage of being able to say it's time to relax because the second result came back as a negative,'' Mr Burke said in Canberra.
"We know how devastating it (EI) was a year ago.
"The billion-dollar figure is often quoted, the truth is we'll never know the full cost of that outbreak.''saddleonline, saddlebred, saddle, girth, cinch
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